EDITORIAL: Ensure coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions
Attorneys general of 20 Republican-controlled states filed a federal suit in February in
Before the ACA took effect in 2014, insurers routinely denied coverage or determined rates based on pre-existing conditions. It is not clear how eliminating the ACA coverage mandate regardless of pre-existing conditions would play out, since there is no standard definition of a pre-existing condition -- different insurers defined them and rated them differently. But the
Whatever the controversies that have plagued the ACA, coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions is its most popular feature. Kaiser polling consistently has shown it to have an 70 percent approval rating among all Americans, including 59 percent of
But this is another case of the administration hewing to a narrow base, even at the expense of health care for millions. But it could backfire. After
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